Knowing Quote by Anonymous

“If you see an old man talking to himself, he might not be a fool or crazy. He might be sharing a conversation with…

— Steven Merle Scott

. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he…

— Thomas More

“Know then thyself; presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A…

— Alexander Pope

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.”

— Robin Hobb

“Doubt crouched over his shoulder, ready to take him by the throat, whispering in his ear, You are an old man. An old, old…

— Eowyn Ivey

“But, indeed, dull, dreary adversity was now in store for him; and adversity, come it at eighteen or eighty, is the true old age…

— Herman Melville

“The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the…

— Lynda I Fisher

“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”

— Laurens van der Post

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I do not know who I am, said the wise man, and went his way of knowledge unto the end of days.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not…

— Socrates